Note XIX-8 — Chapter XIX · CORTÉS IN HONDURAS. 1525-1526.

It was sought to allure the natives back to aid in carrying supplies, but none came. Cortés, Cartas, 450. Bernal Diaz relates that the warriors returned to the attack after the flight, only to lose eight men. They now came to sue, and Cortés offered to release the captives if they sent down provisions to the vessel. This they did, but Cortés nevertheless insisted on retaining three families, whereupon the Indians attacked and wounded twelve Spaniards, including the general. Hist. Verdad., 205. This writer was not with the expedition, however, but at Naco, so that his account is doubly doubtful.